ABSTRACT
But it did not occur to the Sultan Abd'ul-Aziz, who had come to AI-Hasa for an entirely different purpose, that the High Commissioner and the Iraq Government were still manoeuvring for the Muhammarah Treaty; and when he learned the morning we were crossing the Nufoud of the coming of the Iraq Delegation he became wrathful and threatening. He told me that it was he who had asked the High Commissioner to come to AI-Hasa to discuss certain matters of importance, and that he had come to meet him, therefore, in Ojair. As for the two tribes, 'Amarat and Dhafir, he would not have troubled himself to come out of Ar-Riyadh about them. His
Thirdly,-When the English entered Iraq, they respected the boundaries which were formerly acknowledged by the Ottoman Government as the eastern boundary, for instance, between Persia and Iraq, and the southern boundary, between Iraq and Kuwait. They have also accepted the status quo existing at that time between the Turks and the ruling Arab Ameers, their neighbours, foremost among them Ibn 'ur-Rashid. And as the present Sultan of Najd has conquered the Kingdom of Ibn 'urRashid and exercised his authority over all its dominions and its subjects, urban and bedu, he has a right to those of them like 'Amarat and Dhafir who have moved to Iraq.
